HC upholds life sentence to man for raping 8-year-old girl

The Delhi High Court today upheld the life term awarded to a man, who raped a minor after impersonating as a government employee implementing a scheme for the girl child, saying he acted like a "predator looking for young victims with every sunrise".
A bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Mukta Gupta dismissed the appeal of Delhi resident Anwar-ul-Haque and upheld the sentence given by a trial court here this year while directing the Delhi Government to pay a compensation of Rs two lakh to the victim for her welfare and rehabilitation under the 'Restoration and Compensatory Justice' scheme.
"Anwar Ul Haque acted like a predator looking for young victims with every sunrise. Thus, in view of the evidence on record, we find no infirmity in the impugned judgment convicting the appellant for the aforesaid offences and the order on sentence. The appeal is consequently dismissed," the bench said.

The trial court had held Anwar guilty for the offences of cheating, kidnapping, abducting the girl to compel her for marriage, raping a minor, sodomy and criminal intimidation under the Indian Penal Code.
It had imposed a fine of Rs 11,000 on Anwar.
According to the police, in June 2010, Anwar had come to the minor's house in Shakurpur in northwest Delhi impersonating as a government employee implementing the 'Ladli Yojna' for the welfare of the girl child.
Anwar, who introduced himself as Imran, had told the child's mother that he had come to collect the scheme form in which clothes and money are given to girls, it said.

He took the measurement of the child for her clothes and thereafter took her away on the pretext of getting her photograph clicked in a "government studio", it said.